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The World in Brief from The Economist
The World in Brief tells you what’s on the global agenda in the coming day, what to look out for in business, finance and politics and, most importantly, what to make of it.
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- #42
- Episodes
- 17
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 4 min
- On air since
- 2026
- Latest episode
- 1 day ago
Episodes
17 episodes, newest first
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4 min
Anthropic’s big spending plans; Apple’s earnings beat estimates, and more
Show notes
Anthropic committed to spending $895bn on AI infrastructure, according to a regulatory filing ahead of its planned IPO.
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3 min
Germany grapples with unrest; Trump hits the campaign trail, and more
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Germany’s interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, promised “severe penalties” for rioters who looted shops and injured more than 100 police in Frankfurt on Saturday night.
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3 min
Thousands protest again in France; Oleshky evacuees reach Ukraine, and more
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Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, ordered his country’s armed forces to deliver “an immediate and effective response without geographical restriction” in the event of an attack
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4 min
Hackers attempt a crypto heist; Tech stock slump continues, and more
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Donald Trump revived plans to rally in Iowa and Kansas on Sunday, after briefly cancelling both trips
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4 min
Alphabet’s bad day; Amazon’s earnings disappoint, and more
Show notes
Alphabet is in the soup.
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4 min
Alphabet’s disappointing earnings; Binyamin Netanyahu pulls ahead, and more
Show notes
Alphabet’s quarterly earnings disappointed investors.
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4 min
Israel’s messy election results; America to grant fleeing Flávio Bolsonaro a visa, and more
Show notes
Exit polls in Israel’s election suggested no clear winner.
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4 min
Anthropic’s IPO; tumbling markets in Brazil, and more
Show notes
Anthropic, the maker of the chatbot Claude, filed to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange, moving closer to becoming the first company focused mainly on frontier AI to go public.
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4 min
Lula’s shock win in Brazil; Machado returns to Venezuela, and more
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential election.
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4 min
Largely peaceful protests in France; Iran’s “advanced” plans to kill Americans, and more
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Ukraine said its Starlink connection was working again after nearly 11 days of disruptions
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4 min
Stock markets stumble; Trump to cut more Canada tariffs, and more
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Melania Trump brokered a ceasefire in Oleshky, a city in southern Ukraine occupied by Russian forces, according to the White House
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4 min
Tech stocks wobble; Russia and Ukraine exchange attacks, and more
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Vladimir Putin agreed “in principle” to enter American-brokered peace negotiations next month, after he met Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, in St Petersburg.
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4 min
Putin agrees to peace negotiations; websites taken down over security bug, and more
Show notes
Vladimir Putin agreed “in principle” to enter American-brokered peace negotiations next month, after he met Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, in St Petersburg.
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4 min
Ukraine says US intelligence is back; SpaceX revenues soar, and more
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Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was now receiving American intelligence about Russian strikes.
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4 min
Trump open to Putin-Xi meeting; France enforces curfews, and more
Show notes
Donald Trump said he was open to meeting Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping to discuss ending the war with Ukraine—whether the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is “there or not”.
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3 min
Zelensky says America has restarted intelligence sharing; more protests in France, and more
Show notes
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said America had started sharing intelligence again after a pause.
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3 min
Zelensky claims Starlink restrictions were deliberate; Protests flare up across France, and more
Show notes
responsibility.
Separately, Mr Trump fired his new press secretary, Katie Zacharia
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